Celine Villegas is exposed to the MAP Toulouse Photography Festival. This work is the result of the large order of the Ministry of Culture and of the BnF.
Celine Villegas is a self-taught French-Chilean photographer born in France in 1981.
In her film work, which combines abstraction and reality, the photographer takes a unique look at reality and works in particular on portraits of territories and documentary projects.
In these maritime and aquatic environments, she cuts out scenes imbued with poetry, fragments of abandoned bodies, questioning the world around her and the sociology of places or practices.
She collaborates with the national and international press (Monde Magazine, l’Equipe mag, Zadig, Die Welt, Le Temps, Le Monde, etc.). She is the winner of the Grande commande nationale pour les photographes from the Ministry of Culture and the BNF in 2022 and the CNAP contemporary documentary photography grant in 2023. She is starting a project on the ecological challenges of Easter Island, alongside other personal projects on her origins in Valparaiso or on the Parisian Bains Douches.
A fresco of France and the period of uncertainty through the prism of tourism, its actors and its emblematic places. Céline Villegas explores classic heritage tourism, mass tourism but also new forms of tourism to capture the phenomenon in all its nuances.
This journey through tourist France freezes in time a lightness stolen from the annoyances of the time without ignoring them. The Tourist who photographs, observes, marvels in the slowness, offers us a tender and distanced imagination in a country that is nevertheless in crisis. The photographer has documented the gradual return of foreign tourists to France and the resumption of leisure activities that we were deprived of during the Covid period. Through this film work, Céline Villegas offers an offbeat look, sometimes with a touch of humor, at the sociology of tourist places in France.
MAP Toulouse Photography Festival
from September 12 to 29, 2024
https://map-photo.fr/
